verb
- Rise to one's feet.
- usage: "The audience got up and applauded"
- Get up and out of bed.
- usage: "I get up at 7 A. M. Every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
- Raise from a lower to a higher position.
- usage: "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
- Cause to rise.
- usage: "The sergeant got us up at 2 A. M."
- Develop.
- usage: "we worked up an as of an appetite"
- synonyms: work up
- Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.
- usage: "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
- Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.
- usage: "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
- Study intensively, as before an exam.
- usage: "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
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